Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8 Weather Bureau Partly cloudy today. creasing cloudiness. Forecast.) Tomorrow, in Not g0 cool Temperature—Highest, 62, at 6§ pm.; lowest, 57, at 6 a.m Full report on page 7. ¢ Sy Star. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITICN Entered us socond class matter t office Washington o WASHINGTON, D. REDFERN FEARED DOWN "IN STORM; SCHLEE PLANE | PASSES OVER PLYMOUTH Georgian Hours . Overdue, Fuel Exhausted. RADIO COMBS BRAZIL SHORE Coast Guard Cutters to Aid Seaplanes in Search. By the Associated Press. RIO JANEIRO, August 28 (Sun- day)—At 10 minutes past midnight this morning no_news had been received here of Paul Redfern, the Georgia long-distance fiyer, accord- jng to an announcement of the National Tele the government branch operating all Brazilian tele- ph and wircless stations. Stations of the National li well as wireless stations in states of Para, Goyaz, Bahia and Minas Geracs, located on the route over which Rediern was supposed to fly,” says the announcement by the National Telegraphs, “have had no news of the aviato: | This minister of war, army officers i and members of the American colony here, left the air field Campo Dos | Affonsos aiter several hours of vain | waiting. The air field's searchlights | were extinguished. At § o'clock last night the Federal Government was in communication over the national lines Wwith new sta- tions neighboring on the northern tion located in the states of Min: Geras and Bahia, but did not succeed in finding trace of the American avia- | tor. It was felt that by this time his| gasoline must be nearly exhausted uniess he had made a landing. STORM IN REDFERN'S PATH. Fiyer Could Not Have Passed Through | It, Searcher Says. MIAMI, Fla., August 27 UP).—Word | of a severe tropicel.-storm which raged in the vicinity of Great Abaco, Bahamas, Thursday afterncon, dur- ing the hours Paul Redfern was due 1o have passed over that area on his Brunswick-Brazil flight, was brought here late today by Robert Moore, a seaplane pilot, who expressed the be- Jief that the fiyer either was forced \down by the gale or driven off his course toward midocean. . Moore, who returned here in his plane from the Bahamas, said his opin- | ion was shared by John R. Salter, as- 4istant superintendent bf the Bahamas government, who informed him that ihe commissioner at Hopetown, Great | Abaco, officially had reported the dis-| turbance was central off that coast be- tween 3 and 6 p.m. Thursday. If Red- fern set @ course of 135 degrees out of | Brunswick, as reported, a speed of 90 | 9 100 miles an hour would have placed | tie monoplane Port of Brunswick ap- proximately 350 miles northeast of Great Abaco between 5:30 and 6 p.m. | Winds of Gale Proportion. [ The velocity of the wind was not | recorded at Hopetown during the storm, Moore said he was informed by the British official, but the latter said he understood inhabitants of the is- Jand had expressed the opinion that the airplane could not have passed either over or under it. ! A check of all outer islands of the Bahamas group between Abaco and San Salvador by the officer, Moore as- serted, rvevealed that winds of gale proportion were experienced Thursday afternoon and night. These reports were obtained through short-wave- Jength wireless stations located at Hopetown and Cookburntown, the lat- ter being the principal town on San Salvador. Great Abaco is 485 miles southeast of Brunswick and 200 miles east-north- east of Miami. Capt. Charles Wiebe of the sea-going tug Edgar F. Coney, which put in here Jate today, en route from Trinidad to New York, corroborated reports of high southeast winds, which he said he encountered as far south as Mar- tinique, in the Lesser Antilles, since Wednesday night. (Redfern planned to pass west of tinique and other islands of the} acher- ! ntilles, cmerging from the t ous Caribbean Sea off Trinidad.) Cutters Ordered to Searc] Had the Brazil fiver kept his charted course, Capt. Wicbe said he should have been sighted by a number of | southbound ships, which, he said, he passed Thursday and Friday. = Di- rectly on his scheduled course, the tug skipper added, was the water-logged Schooner Esther K., out of Mobile, Which was taken in tow Thursday @ight by the steamer Onondaga. The Jisabled craft was passed by the Coney while the steamer E. L. Do- he said. Coast rd “cutters hamas waters by Lieut. Beck ommander of the Fort with the vere ordered with Jordan, 1,1uderdale ¥ three Biscayne fls which are planning to leave here to search for the monoplane Port of Brunsiwick. WIFE WAITS AND HOPES. Worried and Distressed, Realizing @Qasoline Supply Is Exhausted. | to Siains of 3 Great Air Ventures Across Oceans Incozplete By the Associated Press. Redfern — Probably somewhere in the vast American coastal area Schilee-Brock—Pass over mouth, England, on the and not the mos' difficult, of a world tour. Dole fiyer last thr search being reeled in hus, in less than half a hun d words can be summarized the status of three great avi tion ventures. the lo of which incomplete yas the weck Despite the certainty some, if not all, of the seven missing Pacific flyers have per- ished, and in the face of almost mathematical cer Paul Redfeyn, your argonaut, has been forced dowr by expenditures of his of fuel—if no mishap sooner to end the jump to Rio de Janeir dozen other flights are in prepa- ration for the new week. OCEAN HURRICANE South Ply- first, lap TAKES TOLL 0F 3 Five Schooners Go Down With All Hands—Crews of 11 Others Are Saved. By the Associated Press. T. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Au- —Thirty-three lives lost and rty damage that probably will 1 more than $150,000 was the toll counted today from Thursday's great storm in Newfoundland. The possibility that the death list and property damage figures may mount much higher was seen in the fact that scores of coast line com- munities were still cut off from out- side communication tonight because of damaged telegraph lines. Five fishing schooners went down with all hands, and 11 others were or their crews céming off safely, Twenty-five fishing boats were de- stroyed at Bonavista without casual- ties, while nearly all the fishing establishments at Bay de Merde were demolished. The coastal steamers Argyle and Philomena were driven ashore, with the passengers and crews reported safe. Grave fears are felt here that the Grand Banks fishing fleet suf- fered heavily, but no authentic re- ports have been received yet. Passengers Are Saved. The Argyle was ashore at Morgans Harbor, where Capt. Dunphy said he was forced to beach his ship to save the passengers. The schooner Vienna, Capt. John Chaulk. was lost with all hands oft Fox Roost. She carried six men. . The ~schooner Loretta, Daniel Cheeseman, master, was capsized in | Placentia Bay with the loss of seven men. One body has been recovered. An unidentified schooner, foating bot- ton up. with no sign of a crew, has been sighted off Merasheen, A man named Picco was washed overboard from an unnamed vessel in Danbys Harbor. The schooner Valena is a total wreck at Morgans Harbor, with no sign of her crew, supposed to number five. Albert Luett was washed over- board from the schooner Noxall off St. John's, near the spot the wreck of the schooner Luglan was found yes- terday, with the body of one man lashed in her rigging. The rest of her crew, probably five in all, was missing. GOLD SEIZEi) ON BORDER. 57,000 Mexican Pesos Taken by Customs Men at Larado. LAREDO, Tex., August 27 (P).— Fifty-seven thousand pesos in Mexi- can gold were seized here late last night by American customs officlals who filed charges of violation of cu toms regulations against H. McArdle Laredo. Officers said the gold was in a trunk which McArdle brought from Nuevo edo in automcpile. In the were two Mexican women. who zave | their names as 2 and Mr. Gaetan. the latter said to be the wife of a Mexican general. American_customs quare a declaration being made when gold s brought into this country. Mother and 3 Children Burned. WINNIPEG, August 27 (P).—Mrs J. Capes and three of her children Manitoba, was de. today. Three other ed from the blazi r-old Annie (¢ wear Sperling, stroyed by fi ch 'en were building by 1 | members of the family. known to have been destroyed with | regulations re. | ranging in aze from 1 to 5 years, were | burned to death when their farm home who failed in her effort to arouse other | Glohb e-;r\fl\imtors ' - Nearing End of First Hop. FIRST SIGHTED 400 MILES OU ights of Croydon Field Turned on for Arrival. LONDON. August 28 (Sunday) (@) —The Devizes radio reports that the monoplane Pride of De- troit passed over Plymouth at ¢ a.m. Genewich mean time, today. Plymouth is approximately 200 les by air line from Croyden Field By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 27.—The Valen- tia radig reports the receipt of the. following message from the steam- ship California: “Greenwich mean time 2100; lati- tude 51.01 north, longitude 24.45 west, hted monoplane flying east; height about 1,000 feet.” (While not identified, the monoplane sighted by the California is thought to be the Pride of Detroit on its | way to Croydon airdrome. The posi- | tion given locates the plane about | 400 miles from the British Isles at {9 o'clock this evening, Greenwich | mean time.) Weather Reported Clear. | The Davizes (England) radio reports | | the receipt of the California’s mes- sage of the sighting of a monoplane, |relayed by the steamers Empress of | France and Montnairn, with the ad- illiliomll information: “Weather condi- | tions—strong westerly wind; fine and clear.” The Pride of Detroit's venture is exciting the keenest interest in Great Britain, among the general public, as well as in aviation circles. The Sun- day papers carry pictures of the dar- ing airmen and their plane, and spect late on the time of their arrival. The aviators ‘are certain of a great wel come. and everybody is wishing for the fortunate termination of their transatlantic flight. t | | WEATHER PERFECT AT START. | Large Crowd Give Flyers Send-Off at Harbor Grace. HARBOR GRACE. Newfoundland, August 27 (P).—William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, seeking a new globe-girdling record in their mono- plane, Pride of Detroit, played in luck at the outset of their venture. Ideal l\vea(her conditions greeted them as | they*took off early today to hop across | the Atlantic to Croydon, England. | “We'll make a speedy flight to Eng- Jand with things like this,” Brock, the pilot, said, as he climbed into the cockpit. Despite the early hour of the start, a large crowd had assembled from towns and hamlets along the Concep- tion Bay to give the fiyers a send off. Among those at the fleld was Sir John R. Bennett, colonial secretary, who welcomed Brock and Schlee when they landed here last night from Old | Orehard, Me. Before leaving, the flyers expressed pleasure at the warmth of their wel- come to Newfoundland. The entire population of the place, about 4,000 persons, turned out to greet them on arrival, and hundreds more came by automobile from the scattered settle- ments along the bay. But Brock and Schlee were in a hurry. They listened to official ad- dresses of welcome, thanked the speakers briefly, and then set to work refueling their machine. For this pur- pose 350 gallons of gasoline had been provided in 5-gallon tins. Schlee handled all of these himself, pouring the contents into the tanks of the plane, while Brock, aided by Fred Koehler, advance representative of the flight, worked at the engines. | Arising at 5 o'clock this morning, they had a generous breakfast, ough to last us to England,” a they expressed it. They then drov |to the flying field, warmed up th CROYDEN FIELD LIGHTED. | Staff Stands By Awaiting Arrival of Schlee and Brock. CROYDON, England, August 27 (P). —William §. Brock and Edward F. Schlee in their plane Pride of Detroit are awaited eagerly at the Croydon rdome. The flield will be flooded with lights, both tower and ground lights, and all the staff have been warned to stand by throughout the ight in case the air men arrive \riier than expe Weather con ditions are favor: clear starlight but a rather strong wind. | By the Associated Press. BRUNSWICK, Ga., August 27 (). — “I am only waiting and hoping,” said irs, Paul R. Redfern tonight when ‘he made a_trip from Glynn Isle to ihe city seeking news from her hus irand. who hopped off from Glynn Ixle Yesch Thursday for zil. Not st ifcd with telephoning from the $e'und Mrs, Redfern has made a half Gren tips to the city todav, “I hope if Paul fell that he is safc and will be found.” she said as she Jeit for the island, making a request 1hat she be notified if any news was received during the night. Mrs. Redfern was cheerful and $opeful up to 4 o'clock this afternoon pirong_in_her belief that her_hushand q”fmfin‘fi{a on Page 3, Column 5.) | LONDON August reen. where Samuel ‘the largest quantity of w and very good,’ Pepys wher! ver s his degenerated into m district tenunted by weavers s iter of a new Communist experi t A block of de luxe flats, christenec Lenin Estate.” has been opened for necupancy. ! upplied for rental of the apartments of which there are only 32. The build | a quadrangle. ing stands out in bold contrast to the | two and three bedroom types. sloven tenements that form its back- round. & The building covers hi ground the site being l;}m 11,600 Seek 32 Apartments in New House Built by London Reds as Experiment 27.—Bethnal picked but which the Sixteen hundred persons f-acre of | water. corner of 21 shillings a week. Cambridge road and Parmiter street. It was built under direction of the borough council’s housing committee, which boasts that the flats are the nd mogy modern in London’s tab) ptured the { numes of Communist and Socialist councillors, with golden capitals, was unveiled before a large crowd. ‘The 32 apartments, each with a separate entrance, flank the sides of They are are of the Elec- tricity costs are included in the rent, and there is a generous supply of hot | General enzines of the monoplane, and about | 7:40 o'clock, local time, they were off. | | District National Guard—Page !R(‘\'lew.s of Summer Books—Page SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 28, 1927-N SABOTAGE PLANNED FORLEGION SESSION Sacco-Vanzetti ~ Executions| Declared Pretext for Start of Campaign. BY GERVILLE REACHE. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, August 27.—America has| probably received a false impression of the scope and significance of the events in Paris following the Sacco- | Vanzettl execution. It is highly im-| portant the United States should real- ize just what the movement means. The riots were only the prelude to persistent agitation which will last through September directed here by the communist newspaper Humanite. Long before the executions the Communists, doubtless acting on or- ders from Moscow, decided to give the American Leglon convention a taste of sabotage. The Boston execu- tions merely furnished a convenient supplementary pretext One incident clearly reveals what is behind the movement. The des- ecration of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier obviously had no relation to the Sacco affair. Radical Organ Disavows Thugs. Among the 300 rioters arrested were 50 ex-convicts and even Humanite had to disavow the thugs who seized on the demonstration as an opportunity for pillage and destruction. ! In a great capital like Paris the | criminal’ elements must be reckoned | with. In three instances the police seemed singularly ineffective. Appar- antly they were completely uninformed about the raid on Montmartre, while they displayed neediess brutality in the center of the city. Had the police been more clever they could have kept demonstrations broken into frag- ments and by maintaining contact with these fragments would have pre- vented hundr of thousands of dol- lars’ worth of damage as well as the painfu’ destruction of the tomb. Let us hope that at least these incidents will serve as a lesson for the police in preparing for the even- tualities of September when the Amer- ican Legion will parade. It is prac- tically certain ‘that on that day the tactics of the Communists will be to scater forces in small groups among the throngs of onlookers along the line of march. These groups will be instructed to ery, “Down with Ful- ler,” and hurl the epithet *“Assassins,” at America’'s war heroes. They will also shout, “Vivent Sacco-Vanzetti,” and sing the ‘Internationale.” Of course the members of the legion will be in no danger, as they will be sur- rounded by a strong guard of troops, “(Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) - TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—38 PAGES. News—Local, National Joreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 22, Radio News and Programs—DPages 32 and 33. Financial 36 and 37, and News—Pages 34, 35, PART TWO0—12 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 7. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- | play. ! Music—Page 4. | Motors and Motoring—Pages 5 and 6. | 0 Civilian Army News spanish War Veterans—Page 7. Page 7. 8 Veterans of the Great War—Page 8. Serial, “Lady Slipper”—Page 9. Fraternal News—Page 10. Army and Navy News—Page 10. PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. PART SI sified Advertising \ Daily Horoscope —Page 10, | Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 11 News of the Clubs—Page 11. | Around the City—Page 11. | Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 11. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAG World Events in Pictures. 12 .PAGES. | existence. 199 | “None of Your Lip Warns Truck Driver| But Gets $15 Worth By the Associated Pres: ASBURY PARK 1., August 27.—When Samuel Margaugery blocked the roadway with his | truck and a motorist asked him to pull his vehicle to the side, he re- plied: “None of your lip!” Margaugery was arrested by a traffic officer. Brought into court he found him- self facing the citizen who asked him for room to p “Let me explain,” pleaded. “You had better not,” the judge, fining him $15. IAZZRADIO RAPPED BY VATICAN PAPER Church Leaders Oppose Pro- grams—*“Conducive to Bad Habits and Practices.” Margaugery replied By the Associated Press, Rome, August 27.—Certain phases of radio broadcasting, as at present practiced, are decried by the Osser- vatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican. High prelates in Italy, Spain, Austria, Holland and Czechoslovakia, it says, have taken a stand against the broadcasting of programs con- ducive to habits and_practices frown- ed upon by the church. In Lombardy the installation of radio sets in churches or buildings in any way connected with churches has been forbidden. It is expected that this example soon will be followed in Spain and other countrles. Placing of | antennae on a church ha : been banned in Czechoslovakia. Object to Jazzy Music. In Austria Cardinal Piffl has urged the faithful to try to keep radio con- trol out of the hands of those who would use it for jazz purposes. In Holland a Catholic_radiophonic insti- tute has been founded. The principal counts in the indict- ment of present radio broadcasting | are: It is devoted primaril, im- z dancing and bad habits itself more to spreading immoral rather than good music; . causes waste of time by creating the habit of listening in for hours every day. On the other hand, the church real- izes that the radio has great possibil- ities for educational and moral pur- poses. Urges Church Broadeasting. “What could be more useful or| beautiful as a means of education than the broadcasting of the voices of the chiefs of government or’ the minister: of God—faith, civilization—to distant | people otherwise unable to hear them,” writes Father Paolini in the Osser- vatore Romano. He urges the tion of more church broadcasting sta- | tions, many of which are already i FIRE CAUSIES TRAFFIC JAM ON 14TH STREET Cafeteria Blaze Confined to Source After Damage of $2,500. | e which gutted the cafeteria of Reed & Co. 610 Fourteenth street coused the re-routing of traffic in the vicinity of Fourteenth and F streets for more than two hours last night and drew several thousand spectators. Police estimated the damage at: be- tween $2,500 and $4,000. Originating over a kitchen range on the second floor of the establishment. the fire shot up to the third floor and into the roof rafters, presenting a spectacular blaze for about five min- utes, Four engine companies, ‘two truck companies and the rescue squad responded to the alarm, which was turned in shortly after 9 o'clock by a | passerby. While the firemen promptly got the fire under control they spent two hours | and a half battling the stubborn blaze which had made its way into the roof rafters and inside the walls. The fire was confined (o the cafeteria building. William _ Gaskins, colored, night COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. The flats rent at from 18 to Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr and Mrs.; High UK(- of History. porter at the restaurant, was on the first floor and his first intimation of the fire came when the engines ar- rived. The main cafeteria was only damaged through water. | By the Associated Press. INETY-EIGHT PAGES. | CHILD DIES IN FIRE STARTED AT PLAY Mother and Brother Burned| When Flames Consume Barn in Virginia. Tragedy struck yvesterday into the | family of Harmon Roberts, Quaker dairyman of Fairfax County, ., and today.the body of his 2-year-old son, burned beyond recognition, lies in an undertaking establishment awaiting burial, while another son, 4 years old. fights for his life against serious body burns in the Alexandria Hospital. In the same institution lies also their mother, who strove valiantly to save them, less seriously injured than her surviving son, but racked by the vision of her children in flames—the aftermath of a fire, lighted in child's play, which destroyed the Roberts’ barn. Richard, the younger child, 4nd his brother Robert were playing in the vard of their home, some nine miles south of Alexandria and immediately below Mount Vernon off the Jefferson Highway, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. They disappeared after a while, but their mother, Mrs. Florence Roberts, working in the kitchen, scarcely 60 feet from the big barn, thought nothing of it. Attracted by Screams There were so many places two healthy youngsters at play might go at such a home. There were nearby fields; there were poultry houses; there was the big barn, and the hay loft that had just been filled with the sun-cured hay of the season. That hay loft— Suddenly there were screams. Mrs. Roberts’ memory flashed back to the night before; she had warned her chil- dren thenggiat they were never to play with matches when she found them at that time kindling the cheery little flames. She ran to the door. Smoke at the barn: Matches and hay and her babies, and now her babies were screaming. Mrs. Roberts rushed, ery- ing, to the barn. She tried to go in- side, but already the flames had en- veloped the whole' interior and they hurled her back. The woman was frantic. The chil. dren's father was in Washington. She ran around to the front of the big frame building where she could see into_the open doorway above. The (Centinued on Page 2, Column 4.) TEN ARE HEMMED IN BY FIRE IN FOREST Members of Three Families Cut Off From Escape by Blaze Along Road. | | EUGENE, Ore.,, August 27.—Ten | persons, members of two families were reported hemmed in tonight by a forest fire at the mouth of Nelson Creek, 35 miles west of here. The homes of M. N. Keck and a Mrs. Wilcutt were menaced, the oc- cupants being cut off from escape by fire burning on both sides of the roads leading to their dwellings. All efforts to reach the families had failed. The family of Roy Spry, which had been cut off by the flames, was saved. Fire fighters, aided by high relative humidity, today made progress in checking the fire, which has swept 60 cents * MARVELOUS GOLF | GIVES BOBBY JONES TITLE THIRD TIME UP) Means Associated Press. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at per month. Telephone Main 000 and service will start immediately FIVE CENTS.- SOLDIERS RUSHED 0 AID AMERIGANS AT MEXIGAN MINE Again Wins National Ama- | Governor of Jalisco Goes to teur Crown by Defeating Evans, 8 and 7. ATLANTAN TIES TRAVIS’ MARK FOR SUCCESSES | Chick Looks Good in Defeat, Play- ing Fine Second Round After Being 6 Down. BY BRIAN BELL. Associated Press Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS, August 27.—Bobby Jones today won the national amateur colf championship for the third time in four years. bowlii: over the last obstacle in his path, the veteran Chick Evans, 8 up and 7 to go. To defeat the Chicago player, the Atlantan, who recently won the Brit- ish open championship with a record- breaking 285, clubbed the Minikahda course into complete submission, scor- in5 a 67, five under par, in the morn- ing round, w=en he had Evans 6 dowri, and stepping out in the after- noon, when he seemed for a time to have lost his fine touch, in 36, one over par, for the first nine. Going to the twenty-ninth green down and 8 to play, Chick had a short putt for a half, which would have left the match dormie. It was raining and the twelfth hole was nearl; 400 yards away, so no one, not even the lover, scemed to mind when Chick suddenly walked over to Bobby and congratulated him. Gallery Is Surprised. The galler. for a few minutes did not know what to make of this, as Evans had not putted, but he had used up a stroke by inadvertently moving his ball as he took his stance. The game Evans looked good in de- feat, for he made a golf match of it in the afternoon, after he had gone to luncheon six holes behind. He knew that no man could come from six holes back to win from Bobby Jones, but he ket trying and at one time in the afternoon round had cut the lead to four holes, gettiig two back in the first five holes of the after- noon. However, after the twenty-fourth was balved, Bobby won the next three and started out on the last nine with his greatest advantage of the match. The twenty-eighth was halved with poor fives when both players needed three putts and the end came at the next hole. In the afterrnoon Bobby lost his first hole when he, slipped ove: par at the twenty-first, and although he Scene of Diserder—Red Union Men on Strike. U. S. CITIZENS BESIEGED; FATE REMAINS UNKNOWN Three Battles Reported on West Ccast, With Rebel and Fed- eral Casualties. ated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 27.—Troops have been sent to Atzatlan and Ameri- can interests will be protected, the Mexico City authorities declare. Nu- merous mining companies in various parts of Mexico have suspended or reduced operations the same as the Amparo Co., because of the low price of silver and high taxation. The Amparo mines produce for the most part silver, and employ numerous British workers as well American. Due to the general strike 1,500 to 00 workers belonging to the “red” unions—the name given to the gen- eral Confederation of Labor, rival of the Reglonal Confederation of Mexican Workers—are out. Press dis- patches deny that conditions are seri- ous, but say that American officials have fled from the mining camps to nearby towns. Gov. Romirex of the state of Jalisco has gone to Atzatlan, the Jalisco head- quarters of the Amparo Co., in an ef- fort to adjust the trouble. AMERICANS' FATE UNKNOWN. Consul Reports No Troops Have Arrived at Scene of Siege. By the Associated Press. Uncertainty continued yesterday at the State Department as to the plight of 18 Americans reported besieged Thursday in their homes at the Am- paro Mines in Mexico when the min- ing properties were seized by radicals. A telegram, dated 1 p.m. Friday, from Consul Satterwhite at Guadala- jara, informed the department that telegraphic advices from Amparo were that no Mexican troops, either federal or state, had appeared on the scene up to that morning. The governor of the state of Jalisco, however, was ex- pected. Contrasts With Promises. This report contrasted with assur ances given Friday to the American charge d’affaires by the Mexican act ing foreign minister to the effect that the military had matters in hand and the “situation” of the Americans at was over par at the twenty-third, he could not have won with par, as Chick had a birdie 3. By winning today Bobuy equaled the record of the late Walter J. Travis, who won the championship in 1900, 1901 and 1903. The comparison is not quite the same, for Bobby was runner-up last year, making his rec- ord three championships and once runner-up over a period of four years. The champion has another mark to shoot at in the amateur, however, for Jerome D. Travers won the title four times, 1907, 1908, 1912 and 1913. Routs Old Man Par. Jones' great golf today roited the well trapped and rough-bordered Minikahda course. That venerable Nemesis of all but the best golf play- ers, old man par, had heen flat on his back for several days under ter- rible punishment meted out to him by the fast-flying Bobby. Today the twice-crowned national open, national amateur and British open champion- ship jumped on him with both feet and left him quite groggy if not com- pletely knocked out. The loser, who has been runner- up_ three times, twice won the titles, paid the winner high tribute when President Willlam C. Fownes, jr., of the United States Golf Association, standing in the rain, presented the medals to Bobby, the champion, and Chick, the runner-up, and gave Bobby the championship cun to take to the Atlanta Athletic Club with him. “I did not mind losing,” Evans said. “It was worth the defeat to see such an_exhibition of marvelous golf.” ‘The champion, in his brief speech acknowledging the presentation, said nothing about his golf game, but ad- mitted he liked the Minikahda course. A survey of the scores Fe made on it would suggest that he should want to take it home with him. Five Strokes Under Par. In the first 18 holes of his three 36-hole matches in the quarter finals, semi-finals and finals, Jones shot | 68—69—67, Jimmy Johnston, Francis Ouimet and Chick Evans falling be- fore the attac] ‘The champion played 152 holes in 598 strokes in the cham- pionship, 5 strokes under par and 10 strokes under fours. Monday and Tuesday he played the 36-hole qualifying round in 142 strokes to become medalist, his second day’s 67 establishing a course record. Wed- nesday, when he had a 78, he did 34 holes in 141 strokes. Thursday’s play totaled 27 holes in 104 strokes, and F'ri- day he played 26 holes in 100. Today's 29 holes used up 111 strokes. Jones never before has been 10 un- der fowrs in a major championship, but at tHe East Lake course in At- lanta in 1922 he won the Southern amateur with a score 10 strokes un- der four and a like number under par. an area of 3,000 acres on Nelson Creek _The week’s play by the champion (Continued on Page Column 5. North Gripped by Unseasonable August; Temperatures Low; Snowin Pennsylvania By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 27.—August. distinguished usually by sweltering heat or bright. sunshiny days, has dumped a load of freaky and unsea- sonable weather on the North At- lantic States this year. Extremely heavy rains, a violent storm with wind of high velocity. an almost unprecedented coolness and even snow in one section, has char- acterized the entire montH. The per- sistent subnormal temperature, which locally has been about 5 degrees be- low the average for .the month, may crack a record: for August coolness made in 1871 if it continues over the remaining féw days. Today an example of August, 1927, weather with a report from York, Pa., of snow falling and a tem- perature of 48 degrees above zero; an- other from Rochester, N. Y., report- ing the coldest August 27 since 1922, with a_minimum of 51 degrees, and still others from other sections, all echoing the identical refrain of crop damage by low temperatures and road destruction from heavy rains. Amparo was “satistactory.” Other reports from Mexico City in- dicated that President Calles bad per- sonally ~ordered the protection of American lives and property at the mines. State Departmernt officials em- phasized that the contradiction be- tween the two messages to the depart- ment might be more apparent than real, inasmuch as Satterwhite’s report was probably based on information coming from Amparo in the early morning, before Mexican troops had opportunity to reach the mines. Identity Is Unknown. Since the message Friday to the State Department, reporting the mine seizure and the barricading of foreign- ers still at Amparo, no direc#® word of their condition has reached Washing- ton. The identity of the besieged is likewise as yet unknown. State Department officials said yes- terday that they had no evidence of laxity on the part of the Mexican gov- ernment in protecting American lives and property. The American embassy in Mexico City is better able to judge as to the official Mexican attitude, they said, and therefore all action would be left to it for the present. Approval, however, of the embassy’s attitude in making representations over the seizure of the mines and in asking for Mexican federal protection for the foreigners in Amparo was ca- bled to Mexico City. At the same time the embassy was instructed to keep the question of adequate protection for American lives and property at Amparo before the Mexican forelgn office. THREE BATTLES REPORTED. Heavy Engagements Between Rebels and Mexican Troops Indicated. NOGALES, Ariz., August 27 (#). The Nogales Herald says a composite report of rebel activities on the Mexi- can west coast received today from Guadalajara says three heavy engage- ments and four skirmishes have oc- curred in the State of Jalisco during the past week. with heavy losses to both rebels and Federal troops. Broken bands ranging from 50 to 1.000 men each are reported to have been unusually active in Jalisco with the zone of fighting spreading over the line into the State of Nayarit, where an American girl, Miss Flor- ence M. Anderson of Los Angeles, was fatally wounded in a train attack last Tuesday. Considerable fighting has occurred near Los Altos in the southwestern part of Jalisco. Three small towns in this area recently were reported cap- tured by the revolutionists and still are being held. Lenorio Believed Active. Other advices from Vera Cruz say that Vidal Lenorio, heading'a large band of robbers, has resumed opera- tions in that State and that a large share of the Federal troops detailed for service against the Yaqui Indlan insurrectionists have been sent to-the cast coast. ‘The trouble in Jalisco is said to have begn intensified by the strike Tuesday of miners at Amparo, Mazata and other camps in the Ezatan mu- nicipality. Sabotage is reported at the Amparo camp. Extraordinary precautions have been taken along the rail route on the West coast to prevent attacks on trains similar to the one near Aca- poneta, where Miss Anderson was The unseasonable weather, however, has not been widely distributed. The Northern Atlantic States have borne the brunt of it, according-to weather reports. Corn, beans and potatpes and other crops have suffered in Con- necticut. In Massachusetts and Rhode Island roads have been dam- aged by heavy rai n reports only one fair day in th week. struck with a rebel bullet. Escorts, treble the usual number of rurale: have been placed on each train. Pa: senger trains each are reported carry- ing three cars of soldiers with 88 men to the car. . Mexjcan officlals here and at No- les, _Sonora, the govern: (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)